From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 17 8: 7:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1253C37B908 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 08:07:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) for chat@freebsd.org id 12hD7K-000CnL-00; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 16:07:14 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA27540 for chat@freebsd.org; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 16:07:13 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 16:07:13 +0100 From: J McKitrick To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: M$ anti-trust case Message-ID: <20000417160713.B27040@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At the risk of rehashing old material, i got into a debate with my dad over this case. He's asking me how it has hurt him to buy software that does what he wants for as cheap as he has gotten it. He claims that if there were anything out there better, it could become popular on the merits of being better. He also claims that if he found something that worked better than M$ office, he would buy it. I say he would never see such a product, because there is no developer who wants to try to compete with a free product, or one that comes with the computer tightly bound to the OS. He also claims that since AOL and other ISP's often give a free copy of netscape to complement the free copy of IE, the consumer gets more for their money, and netscape is still alive anyway. Any thoughts? jm -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Jonathon McKitrick -- jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org To Microsoft: "Your tyranny I was part of, is now cracking on every side. Now your own life is in danger. Your Empire is on fire." Front 242 ------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message